Inhibitions coordinate with natural desires, and pedophilia isn't natural. I would say that failure and bad childhood (presumably having to do with parents) lead a person to do look at children in a lustful manner. Also, we normals probably don't understand it very well. I am sure pedophilia is an exaggerated phenomenon. Murderers, for instance, channel aggression. It is not that they LOVE blood. Else, they would cut themselves for the hell of it. They want to feel powerful, and they want to see their aggression come into fruition. I am sure pedophilia is much the same way, only the aggression is channeled sexually. It is hard to say what circumstances would lead to pedophilia, as the psychological profile of the person is also a variable.

Pedophilia only exists in etremely low ages (less than 11, for example). In these times where the food and other stuff is unhealthy, that is not a good measure, but the natural measure for the start of sexual activity is the first menstruation of the girl.

Marriages were done all the time with girls as young as 11. No one came with that pedo-bullshit. Get over this.

Joke all you can, but I've stated a simple truth. Marriages were often made with girls as young as eleven and no one gave a damn. The prophet mohammed did this.

As for young boys going to war: Yes, it always happened. And happens even today, we all know about unofficial armies, be of drug dealers, or tribal wars, that use young boys. But I think going out to kill and be killed is a little different and more severe than sex.

Man are always going to be attracted to young girls as young as 9 years old. I did not say sex, I said attracted. It's difficult for most men to acknowledge that, but it's the plain truth. Put a naked 9 year old in front of you and if your sexual organ does not get full of blood, call a doctor: You have erectile disfunction.

You can see the contradiction in fathers who do not take sex seriously, and take a more "modern", liberal view of the subject, as if it is just a bodly function. But such people may be the same who say "I do not favor those sick people who have sex with 13 year old girls - I have a daughter." But if sex is just a bodly function, why care about that? My theory: That father feels secret sexual attraction towards his offpring, from there comes the desire to protect her from other males. In example of this are cultures in which the father initiated the daughter sexually. I think freud would agree. Of course, most fathers would rather die than to admit that for one second some lustful though crossed their minds about their daughters. The reverse is also true, with the boy projecting his feelings of warm love and sexual energy towards the mother, and the girl, towards the father. It has been also proved that children have sexual impulses from a very early age. Do not touch your daughter's private parts.

You know I'm right. If you're all so "pagan", you know even more. To have more evidence, search in pornography video sites for "daddy" or "father and daughter". Who do you think are the majority of people watching those videos? Sons?

I have to say, I've never understood the idea of pubescent children "not being mentally mature enough" to know if they really want to have sex or not. Any male brought up in this society will be gagging for it by the age of thirteen (which is why there are "so many" teenage pregnancies). Nobody's going to be traumatised by having sex at that age unless they're raped, and it's the violence of rape which will be the traumatising factor.

Another thing that bothers me, is that sex is somehow considered to negate innocence - as if "innocence" and "sex" are mutually exclusive. What do these people think Adam and Eve were doing, day in, day out, before they ate of the tree of knowledge?

Joke all you can, but I've stated a simple truth. Marriages were often made with girls as young as eleven and no one gave a damn. The prophet mohammed did this.

As for young boys going to war: Yes, it always happened. And happens even today, we all know about unofficial armies, be of drug dealers, or tribal wars, that use young boys. But I think going out to kill and be killed is a little different and more severe than sex.

Man are always going to be attracted to young girls as young as 9 years old. I did not say sex, I said attracted. It's difficult for most men to acknowledge that, but it's the plain truth. Put a naked 9 year old in front of you and if your sexual organ does not get full of blood, call a doctor: You have erectile disfunction.

You can see the contradiction in fathers who do not take sex seriously, and take a more "modern", liberal view of the subject, as if it is just a bodly function. But such people may be the same who say "I do not favor those sick people who have sex with 13 year old girls - I have a daughter." But if sex is just a bodly function, why care about that? My theory: That father feels secret sexual attraction towards his offpring, from there comes the desire to protect her from other males. In example of this are cultures in which the father initiated the daughter sexually. I think freud would agree. Of course, most fathers would rather die than to admit that for one second some lustful though crossed their minds about their daughters. The reverse is also true, with the boy projecting his feelings of warm love and sexual energy towards the mother, and the girl, towards the father. It has been also proved that children have sexual impulses from a very early age. Do not touch your daughter's private parts.

You know I'm right. If you're all so "pagan", you know even more. To have more evidence, search in pornography video sites for "daddy" or "father and daughter". Who do you think are the majority of people watching those videos? Sons?

This all seems irrelevant to the issue of the 'stereotypical' modern pedophile. They are generally worthless sexual predators so what is achieved by trying to justify their actions. Whether or not 9/11/15 is 'too young' is irrelevant. Even if the act isn't inherently wrong, these men are cretins.

Then again, the modern fixation with pedophiles is a form of madness. You can't so much as glance at a child without being given suspicious looks.

Of course, the person who has a fixation with children, and will only get pleasure from sex with a person not older than 14, is obviously a different case. I just took the opportunity to state what I do not think is pedophilia. But of course, it exists, and when the person is only interested in children or pre-teens, it is a paraphilia.

what is it about children that sets them apart from adults? answering this might give us a clue as to what turns pedophiles on. it could be that children are physically powerless and that turns some people on. or that they are innocent about worldly matters. it could be the cuteness that fuels the lust. in fact i'd like others to come up with ways in which kids are different from adults because therein must lie the cause of some people's sexual attraction to them and also clues to their underlying psychology.

what is it about children that sets them apart from adults? answering this might give us a clue as to what turns pedophiles on. it could be that children are physically powerless and that turns some people on. or that they are innocent about worldly matters. it could be the cuteness that fuels the lust. in fact i'd like others to come up with ways in which kids are different from adults because therein must lie the cause of some people's sexual attraction to them and also clues to their underlying psychology.

Is it not fairly self evident?. Children are human beings.who are still developing mentally and physically. They have not yet developed the same mental and physical capabilities as an adult. This is probably a big part of the reason that predatory individuals target children - they're easy prey.

A previous poster highlighted this point - it isn't just about sexual preference. It's about power.

Nobody's going to be traumatised by having sex at that age unless they're raped, and it's the violence of rape which will be the traumatising factor.

Children 8 and under are very naive, enough so that a family member they trust may coerce them non-physically into participating in activities they don't want to. Young children are very vulnerable to this sort of abuse.